System and method for transforming photo tags of products into a linkable advertisement or purchase page

Abstract

A system includes a plurality of servers to process and serve a social web application and advertising platform. The platform is capable of transforming tags of products in identifiable regions of a socially shared photo into a linkable advertisement and/or hyperlink to a purchase page for the products. Transforming the shared photo itself into a multi-faceted advertisement, creates direct relevance, desire, works within the confines of screen real estate limitations, saves manual research and communication and provides a direct path to complete the purchase.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for product promotion by hyperlink tags, comprising:
 uploading a digital photo to a remote database server for association with a user profile of a virtual social network;   tagging one or more products depicted in the digital photo with a text tag;   transforming the text tags to hyperlink tags for displaying advertisements for each of the one or more products and for displaying a hyperlink to a product purchase page for each product;   associating a plurality of attributes with the one or more products and respective hyperlink tags;   displaying the advertisements and one or more of the plurality of attributes upon selection of a hyperlink tag by a first type of selection; and   displaying the product purchase page upon selection of the hyperlink by a second type of selection.